Improvement in attachments for sewing-machines



' F. T. GRIMESL.

I I Baster for SewingMachines.

No. 109,612. Patented Nov. 29, 1870.

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FRANKLIN THOMAS GRIMES, OF LIBERTY, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 109,612, dated November29, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN T. Games, of Liberty, in the county of Clayand State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Attachable andDetachable Baster for Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare thatthefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section in the line ac 00,Fig. 1.

This invention consists of a rod to be attached by any convenient meansto the clothtable of a sewing-machine, or to an adjustable plateconnected with the cloth-table, said rod being provided with arms at itsends, one of which arms is furnished with teeth, while to the other isfastened one extremity of an elastic strip, that is also furnished withteeth at its other extremity, which teeth are fastened into the fabricsto be sewed together, and into these fabrics, after being. dulystretched, the teeth of the arm aforesaid are inserted, by which meansthe cloth is kept smoothly extended and prevented from drawing orpuckering.

In the drawing, a is the rod; 1), one of its ams; c, the teeth of sucharm; (I, the elastic attached to the arm at the other end of the rod; 0,the teeth of such strip; f, the adjustable plate h h, flanges projectingupward from such plate; a", orifices in the flanges h, which receive therod or, and from which it may be removed at pleasure; 7.", shoulders inthe ori' fiees t, which hold the rod in place, permitting it to be movedendwise.

FRANKLII T. GRIMES.

Witnesses:

Cross. A. PETTIT, SoLoN O. KEMON.

